Garment-supporting clasp.



PATENTBD AUG 27, 1907 Fig 5.

Q FT 7 J. F. ATWOOD. GARMENT SUPPORTING CLASP. APPLIGATIOI FILED [AR 27. 1907 PEA- WIT IEEEE'Q THE uonms PETERS c0., WASHINGTON, n. c.

2 5 tail below, and illustrate d in the accompanying draw} JAMES FQATWOOD, or oLAiiEMoNT, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

GARMENT-SUPPORTING GLASP;

i No. 864,285.

Specification of Letters Patent.

PatentedAug. 27,1907.

: Application filed March 27, 1907. Serial no. 364,797.

To all whom it may concern: i

Be it known that 1, James F. ATWOOD, a citizen of the United States, residing in Olaremont, in the county of Sullivan and State of NeWHampshire, have invented a new and useful Improvement, in Garment-Supporting Clasps, of which the following is a specification.

lhis invention relates to clasps for supporting garments or portions thereof such as stockings, under W631, etc., and particularly to that class or garmentsupporting clasps in. whicha loop isprovidediorre ceiving the portion of the garment. to beclainped and retained bytheclasp, openingor'slot in said loop being broader at its upper endthanat its lower end.

The clasp which is the subject. ofmy present invention comprises a clamp which consists of twojaws and is adapted to be applied horizontally to a tab or piece of webbing, a horizontal wire"loopdirectly sustained by.

said clamp, a vertically disposed loop directly supported I by the horizontalwire loop and providedwith a slot or opening for receiving a portion of. the fabric or garment to be supported, and a. pin extending: upward irom a' point below the lower end of said slot centrally in ironti of it and with its upper pointedend entendingbehindx the horizontal-loopabove referred to.

The nature otthe invention istully described in deings,in which'. 1 I

I through the ta b orweb ene ar its lower end into corre- Figure -l is a front elevation ofmy improved garment i j supportingclaspl ,FigNZisa central vertical section. -30

of the same engaging andsupportinga piece of fabric.

Fig.- Sis a iront elevationshowing the vertical support; ing oop made ol wire instead of slieet metal ajslintFigI 1. 3 Fig. its an elevation joi the supporting loop re moved. 3 Fig. 5 is a side View ofthepin removed. Fig.-

.6 is a view of the horizontalwire loop removec l. j'FigtT is an elevation oi the clanipreinoved. Fig. 8 i sa section takenon line 8-2-8, Fig. 7 9. is a section taken on lineo o, Fig. 2.

parts. 7 i p p 11 represents a clamp consisting of two jaws "b and c, the jaw 0 being formed with teeth d which extend sponding sockets in the jaw b (Figs. 2 a1 1d7 whereby said clamp is firmly united to the tab or g is a horizontally disposed wire loop whose inwardly and upwardly bent ends hare held rigidly by theclanip a between its jaws b and 0. The above described clamp i and loop are not new inthis invention.

.l: is the vertically disposed supporting loop of shape to provide a slot or opening lbroader at its upper than I Similar lettersof reference indicate corresponding;

at its lower end, said loop being made of sheet metal formed with. a, strengthening rib m as illustrated in Figsl, 2, 4and 9, or of wire n as illustrated in Fig. 3. i The upper ends of the two portions of this loop are bent at 10 around the lower part of the loop 9, and thus pivotally secured thereto. .Near the lower end of the loop i la, below the slot, is a hole 1' by means of which the lower end of a pin 8 isrigidly secured thereto. The lower end t of this pin is bent up against the rear suriace of the loop is andthe pin, extending through the hole 1', is

bent up and extends vertically upward against, the

frontlof the loop and thence centrally in front of the j slot 1, the pinbeing bent rearward at u ata slight angle whereby its upper pointed end extends behind the loop g and little above its lower portion, pressinglightly When the lower loop is made of against said portion. I wire the p inis bent around the extreme lower portion of the wire below the slot as illustrated in Fig.3.

By swinging thelloop 7c and pin up into. a hori-zontal position,asillustrated in dotted linesin Fig. 2, it is a simple matter to catclrthe stocking or fabric (illustrated at p in Figs. 2 and 9) oyer the upper pointed end of the pin, and then draw the engaged portion of thefabric into the broad upper portion of the slotl and thence held firmly by its into the lower portion, where it ownthickness and the pin. p

The device is exceedingly easy to adjust andthe fabric is much less liableto injuryfrom strain or to be co1hetorn than where it is held in place in the slot by a stud, or whenit is heldbya very n'arro'w slot only.

-Haying thus fully described my invention, what =-claim,.an d desire tosecure'by Letters Patent, is: 1

In, a garment-supporting clasp of the character (lescribed, a substantially vertically disposed depending loop proyided with a longitudinal slot or opening, the lower portion of said slot;be ing nari-owandof substantially even width, and the upper portion being comparatively. broad, a horizontally disposed loopqto which the said vertical 1 6 is -pivotally connectecl'at its upperzends, and a pin below the slot and extending upward centrally opposite and substantially parallel with said slot, the upper pointed. 'Ql'lddOf the pin extending behind and sufliciently above the pivotal connection between the two loopstoenable said .bare pointed end to catchfin'a fabric or garment when. the lower loop isswung upward out of line with the upper loop wherebysaid fabric may be drawn andguided down into the narrow portion of the slot and jammedb e- "tween-itsedgesandthe piu. m l i In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this rig-idly secured gto the lower portion of the vertical loop specification in the presence ottwo snbscribing witnesses.

Witnesses;

, IRAG. CoLsY,

IRA COLBY.

JAMES RATWOOD. 

